The problem of "alternative inputs" is that they are all ambiguous, vague, and subjective.
Voice - "Close Window!" (well you have lots of windows open, which one?) -- how about "Close Porn Window". (D'oh, did I say that aloud?) "Close the Window, I'm cold".
How about conversations with coworkers, or the phone? "I can't believe they are going to shut down for the holidays, huh? Yes! I am sure! But we're staying open... shit, my computer just shutdown."
Touch Screen? You think you have carpel tunnel issues now?
Pupil Tracker? WTF? What is it going to think of people who keep tracking off to look at the clock, or the receptionist?
"Electric cars wont bring down the grid -- if they aren't widely adopted". What if, instead of half a million, there's 10-30 million? How many "plasma TVs" does it take to bring down the grid?
In that case, they will just convert the electric consumption to something that has a better scale, like "Libraries of Congress".
What's the incentive?
There is none. Around here, they say "conserve!", but if you do, then they say "we don't have the revenue we used to! Raise the rates!". Heaven forbid a union public works utility worker ever lost his job because it was no longer necessary...
I'll believe in conservation when less use lowers overhead... like if the USPS drops Saturday deliver, and they let go of 16% of the employees... yeah, right.
As I understand it, one theory says humans cause global warming... seems like;
1. The Earth warms up.
2. Profit!
3. Global Warming(tm) kills humans.
I guess people are just pissed off about step 2. I might be missing something about underpants gnomes or don't have the order quite right, but overall, it sounds like a self correcting problem.
Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe. If we need it, just go get it. If someone could come up with a rocket that could burn carbon-based politician gas bags, we'd solve this problem in no time.
Things are getting muddled a bit here. Perhaps there is no "right" to "copy", but don't toss the whole idea of "certain unalienable rights". The idea of those rights, and founding a government based on protecting those rights (and not granting them) seemed to work well for quite a while...
Simply dismissing "innate/natural rights" [as] the realm of philosophy and theology... may sound good to you, but when you think that way you come up with thoughts like A right is an agreement among society and Rights are established by governments...
Which leads to where it would be OK if society and government start taking away your "theoretical rights". Some cultures suck. The trick is to maintain a culture that only metes out punishment fit for a crime, lest it become one of the cultures that suck too.
Another fun but pointless fact: tin foil isn't made of aluminum.
Curses! Foiled again!
For the pendants...
Boris Badenov: Phooey! Foiled again!
Natasha Fatale: Don't you mean, "Curses! Foiled again!"?
Boris Badenov: Please, Natasha. This is kiddie show.
It is as if you HATE seafood, but you are driving along and you see a broken down carload of nuns (of course you thought they where hot college girls going to a costume party) on their way to a fish fry and you innocently help them out by transporting their (unbeknown to you) leaky boxes of melting cod fillets to the parish hall.
Then you suffer with retching dry heaves every time you drive, for the remainder of your ownership of said car.
For example, the whole propfol thing with the death of that pop singer last year seems to have turned up all kinds of info on how that drug is abused... so a) it is not unpleasant, b) can kill you if you overdose.
Seems to me a perfectly humane death sentence prescription, no?
They are raising funds for a movie called The Tunnel by letting people invest in individual frames for $1 apiece. When the movie is complete, it will be released for free on torrent sites.
They are pretty much like a "squeegee guy" or someone sitting at a freeway off ramp with a sign that says "will work for food".
Yeah, working a 9-5er sucks... maybe I'll take donations for $10/sentence to write a book... which I will release to project gutenberg for free!
Guess what all three have in common? I am not a member any of them.
Don't worry, I don't use my real name on Slashdot either, so I guess it doesn't matter whether I use this site or not. (BTW I had enough karma to turn off ads, which I didn't bother to do for a long time... but when the ads started covering up what they call content, I did take that disable ads option...)
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The problem of "alternative inputs" is that they are all ambiguous, vague, and subjective.
Voice - "Close Window!" (well you have lots of windows open, which one?) -- how about "Close Porn Window". (D'oh, did I say that aloud?) "Close the Window, I'm cold".
How about conversations with coworkers, or the phone? "I can't believe they are going to shut down for the holidays, huh? Yes! I am sure! But we're staying open... shit, my computer just shutdown."
Touch Screen? You think you have carpel tunnel issues now?
Pupil Tracker? WTF? What is it going to think of people who keep tracking off to look at the clock, or the receptionist?
"Electric cars wont bring down the grid -- if they aren't widely adopted". What if, instead of half a million, there's 10-30 million? How many "plasma TVs" does it take to bring down the grid?
In that case, they will just convert the electric consumption to something that has a better scale, like "Libraries of Congress".
What's the incentive?
There is none. Around here, they say "conserve!", but if you do, then they say "we don't have the revenue we used to! Raise the rates!". Heaven forbid a union public works utility worker ever lost his job because it was no longer necessary...
I'll believe in conservation when less use lowers overhead... like if the USPS drops Saturday deliver, and they let go of 16% of the employees... yeah, right.
Now you're just being repetitive
No, the cancer is repetitive, that phrase, when applied to cancer is descriptive.
Oh, slashdot... GP should have used a car analogy, like "If Ms. Spears were a car, a Yugo would be better..."
As I understand it, one theory says humans cause global warming... seems like;
1. The Earth warms up.
2. Profit!
3. Global Warming(tm) kills humans.
I guess people are just pissed off about step 2. I might be missing something about underpants gnomes or don't have the order quite right, but overall, it sounds like a self correcting problem.
Helium is the second most abundant element in the universe. If we need it, just go get it. If someone could come up with a rocket that could burn carbon-based politician gas bags, we'd solve this problem in no time.
... the example of what happens when you don't have any meaningful requirements to be a voter.
Things are getting muddled a bit here. Perhaps there is no "right" to "copy", but don't toss the whole idea of "certain unalienable rights". The idea of those rights, and founding a government based on protecting those rights (and not granting them) seemed to work well for quite a while...
Simply dismissing "innate/natural rights" [as] the realm of philosophy and theology... may sound good to you, but when you think that way you come up with thoughts like A right is an agreement among society and Rights are established by governments...
Which leads to where it would be OK if society and government start taking away your "theoretical rights". Some cultures suck. The trick is to maintain a culture that only metes out punishment fit for a crime, lest it become one of the cultures that suck too.
The financial giants don't predict the markets, they make them
Obviously reality still has some bearing on things.
What if I wanted it to say Coffee in English instead of Dutch? Could I use the same hardware?
Another fun but pointless fact: tin foil isn't made of aluminum.
Curses! Foiled again!
For the pendants...
Boris Badenov: Phooey! Foiled again!
Natasha Fatale: Don't you mean, "Curses! Foiled again!"?
Boris Badenov: Please, Natasha. This is kiddie show.
It is as if you HATE seafood, but you are driving along and you see a broken down carload of nuns (of course you thought they where hot college girls going to a costume party) on their way to a fish fry and you innocently help them out by transporting their (unbeknown to you) leaky boxes of melting cod fillets to the parish hall.
Then you suffer with retching dry heaves every time you drive, for the remainder of your ownership of said car.
Fifty bucks says the password is GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!
Good luck with that. Even though goals are few and far between, in a game, there is an infinite number of ways of saying it...
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!
etc.
THEY FIRST told me I HAD to use iTunes, and AT&T,
and I didn't speak up because I wanted to be Cool.
THEN THEY told me I couldn't change the battery,
and I didn't speak up because I buy a new one every year.
THEN THEY told me I had to hold the phone with my pinkie extended,
and I didn't speak up because I don't mind looking gay.
THEN THEY CAME for more of my money
and by that time there was none left to buy more crap.
Apologies to Niemöller.
"Licenses? We ain't got no licenses. We don't need no licenses! I don't have to show you any stinkin' licenses!"
Geezers have just learned that everything is over-hyped crap, and folks just don't appreciate having their parade rained on.
Not a troll, just curious why this is so hard?
For example, the whole propfol thing with the death of that pop singer last year seems to have turned up all kinds of info on how that drug is abused... so a) it is not unpleasant, b) can kill you if you overdose.
Seems to me a perfectly humane death sentence prescription, no?
They are raising funds for a movie called The Tunnel by letting people invest in individual frames for $1 apiece. When the movie is complete, it will be released for free on torrent sites.
They are pretty much like a "squeegee guy" or someone sitting at a freeway off ramp with a sign that says "will work for food".
Yeah, working a 9-5er sucks... maybe I'll take donations for $10/sentence to write a book... which I will release to project gutenberg for free!
Shop for antique buggy whips?
No! there is a (small) market for NEW buggy whips... and with the Internet makers can profitably find that market!
Researchers say the treatment almost certainly killed her
And, without treatment? Nature would have taken it's course... I'd say let people try what they want (assuming the treatment is not a total scam.)
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. - Redd Foxx
The "Best Browswer" is the one your paying customers use. For better or worse.
I've never heard of Bebo. Me neither!
Facebook and Twitter? I have heard of those.
Guess what all three have in common? I am not a member any of them.
Don't worry, I don't use my real name on Slashdot either, so I guess it doesn't matter whether I use this site or not. (BTW I had enough karma to turn off ads, which I didn't bother to do for a long time... but when the ads started covering up what they call content, I did take that disable ads option...)
Chill, dude, he could be speaking ebonics or maybe he has more than two hands... It just doesn't seem PC to dis alternative grammar.
"Off and off-er" or "off and almost-as-off"?
Reminds me of - It depends on what the definition of the word 'is' is
Which of course leads to the arch typical;
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
Are you saying the world is built on bugs?
I am confused, I thought it was turtles, all the way down.
I heard that every bird struck by a windmill trickles down into the earth as another barrel of oil.